CSLS awarded its first annual graduate student paper prize in Spring 2022. The CSLS paper prize is awarded to a current Berkeley graduate student whose nominated paper best represents outstanding law and society research and addresses one or more of the Center’s areas of scholarly focus: criminal justice, democracy and civil society, or inequality. We had an outstanding pool of nominated papers for the prize, which comes with an award of $1,000.
The 2022 prize went to Adriana Ramirez, a doctoral student in Sociology, for her paper, Navigating Multiple Citizenships: Young Return Migrants Negotiating Membership in Oaxaca, Mexico